HLTHAGE 3I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Crosscut Records, Gender Role, Menopause
21 Apr 2016
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Health age 3l03 lecture 12: managing the aging body. Grey glory: a documentary about older adults who are athletics. Managing the aging body: sleep, carework, oral health, bathing, diet/nutrition, independence/dependence, activity/exercise, fashion, aesthetics, hislop & arber (h & a, 2003) intro. Socially patterned: sleep as a motivated act inseparable from social patterns, influenced by social roles and positions. Aim: examine how women"s sleep is influenced by the social context in which it takes place, & to consider extent to which sleep disruption can be viewed as a gendered phenomenon. Sleep disruption commonly experienced among mid-life women (40-59) In mid-life sleep disruption is common in age 40-59. Mother, menopausal, employee, wife/partner/newly single, daughter (carer), etc: mothers to children to young adults, experiences symptoms of menopause, work, still married, single, partnered, daughters of aging parents, grievance. Mostly due to woman having multiple roles. All of these roles can promote disturbed sleep. Merging of roles increases potential for sleep deterioration.
